CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE LANGUAGE TEST OF UIN SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA TOWARD STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT OF ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (PBI).

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id To filter pre-college students who will take education in the college, there are many ways provided either by the Indonesian goverment or the internal institution of college. From the Indonesian goverment, there are Public College Entrance Selection Test SBMPTN, Interests And Abilities Exploration Test PMDK, Pre-College Students Entrance Test Of Public Islamic College SPMB-PTAIN and others. Whereas, internal institution of university also conducts selection namely Pre-College Students Selection Test SPMB. 3 Joshua argued that test is one of criterion for judging the excellent education 4 . There are many kinds of test depending on the test purpose itself such as evaluating purpose from what has been taught and for knowing the qualiaty of the students. The collage entrance test is an example of a test which has purpose to select or filter the pre-collage students then taking them program based on the quality possessed by them. In the collage entrance test, the pre-college students are given 3 choices program which they want to be studied. Then, by the score they are gotten, the collage entrance test executant will decide who are accepted and which one the suitable program for them based on their capability. From the explanation above, it can be infeered that the College Entrance Test result gives significant effect toward college students, because by their score there are gotten, they will be determined by the college whether 3 www.uinsby.ac.id taken at 23 January 2016. 4 Joshua Aronson, IMPROVING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, Impact Psychological Factors on Education, New York: Academic Press, 2002 64 digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id they are accpepted or rejected and it also will determine the program they are going to study. Therefore, the urgensity of creating accurate tests have to be arranged based on the a good test concept. Where, in this case, there are many aspects that must be noticed which all of them are becoming one in validity, reliability, practicality and authenticity test concept. 5 Dealing with the explanation above that College Entrance Test can become one of the predictors of pre-college students’ achievement, this disscussion focuses on the concept of validity where it is including into one kind of various validity ,criterion-related evidence 6 . So that it is important to know the validity of College Entrance Test toward students’ achievement, it means that if the college students got big score in College Entrance Test, they will also achieve a big score in their academic achievement. Eventhough, there are many aspects that influence students’ achievement in their academic, the conducting research is applied to know the quality of the College Entrance Test to predict the students’ achievement. The research was conducted in UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya exactly English Teacher Education Department PBI. SPMB qualification test is arranged and conducted by internal institution of the college. In UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, It is consisting of few materials : general science, language competence English and Arabic and religion material. But, to get more focus research, the test score is only taken from langauge competence, it is because language matereial becomes the main criterion in acception and 5 H Douglas Brown, LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT, Principles And Classroom Practices,London: Pearson Longman, 2003 19 6 Ibid, 24